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Pwn.college
AI summary Pwn.college is a free cybersecurity education platform offering hands-on learning through challenges.
Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)
NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine (NVKE). A management plane for GPU Kubernetes on bare metal. - dsx-ai-factory/nvke
Claude was faster and cheaper. We took the scenic route anyway
AI summary Researchers tested five small local models on one machine, using a method called Verify, Then Vote to check sources before selecting answers. This approach allowed them to rerun…
Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier
At almost every budget, the best AI model you can buy is closed. An open-weight model wins at just 3% of price points, down from 41% in June.
Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap in the two days
AI summary Tesla and SpaceX lost over $420 billion in combined market value following Democratic midterm election victories, which analysts view as increasing regulatory risks for Elon…
MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs
AI summary MoofTCP is a replacement for MacTCP, offering a new TCP/IP stack for 68k Macs with a control panel and installer.
Inkling 2 Small
AI summary Inkling 2 Small is a new model with 594B parameters, supporting image inputs and variable effort.
Brazilian Credit Guarantor Fund Data Breach Affecting PII and Payout Data
AI summary Brazil's FGC reports a security incident involving unauthorized access to personal data and payout information. No evidence of misuse or financial loss has been found.
Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
Cuban says he has been seeing his own face in scammy AI-generated ads for nonexistent diabetes cures.
Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber
AI summary A BlazeTV video mocked the 'Young Right' for cultural choices, but the political shift saw Democrats win midterms, surprising the right.
Claude Code sends your email address to websites
AI summary Claude Code sends users' email addresses to websites via User-Agent headers during web searches, causing privacy concerns.
Tencent Launches Hy4, One of the Leading Open-Source AI Models
Tencent today announced the release of Tencent Hy4, its latest-generation large language model, marking a significant leap in performance and capabilities that now ranks it among…
The Cost of Blogging
AI summary The article discusses the value of owning a domain for a blog and the preference for paid blogging platforms over free ones.
Kagi Search for Everyone
AI summary Kagi now allows anyone to search the web without an account for limited searches. It also highlights concerns about Google's AI policies in education.
Goodbye from Salon
AI summary Salon, a website that operated for 31 years, is ceasing publication after pioneering a new era of journalism.
Introducing Pangram Image 1.0
AI summary Pangram Image 1.0 is a new AI detection tool with 99.96% accuracy on synthetic images, supporting lower resolution inputs.
Hungary: Communist-era files released, up to 60k former agents revealed
AI summary No relevant information about Hungary or communist-era files was found in the article.
The Hackintosh Reborn
AI summary A guide for running macOS on non-Apple hardware has been revived, showing continued interest in hackintosh despite Apple's shift to ARM.
NTS: Authenticated Time at Meta
AI summary Meta is enhancing time accuracy and security by moving to chrony and securing time protocols, which are critical for certificate validation.
My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
AI summary A gym app's social feed annoyed the user, so they reverse-engineered it to extract the QR code functionality.
Launch HN: Rivet (YC F25) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3
Hey HN, this is Nathan and Nicholas from Rivet (https://rivet.dev).Rivet is a fast, high-density, and scalable orchestrator for agentic workloads using the actor model. Rather…